VC4A Female Founder Program for African Female Founder 2023

Are you a female founder or co-founder of a business based in Africa?

• Do you want your business to reach the next stage?
• Do you aspire to grow your business reach?
• Do you aspire to achieve substantial growth?

If so, the  Female Founder Program is the right place for you!

The program aims to help you to develop your entrepreneurial mindset, acquire adequate skills, understand the market, grow your reach, and pitch your business to investors.

The program is designed to holistically support African female founders in their entrepreneurial journey, using the lean and agile methodology as a driver, focusing on running experiments to facilitate growth, and allowing a safe space to fail and to learn along 3 months.

About VC4A

VC4A started with the mission to build up Africa’s start up community. Started in 2007, the network building organization has grown organically over the years into what is now the leading community working to build high growth high impact companies globally. Increased economic momentum is fueled by a growing number of entrepreneurs and their ambition to transform society. It is imperative we seek out the collaborations and partnerships needed to bring together the capital, knowledge, and network these entrepreneurs require to succeed – and to provide every entrepreneur with an e... read more

Female Founder Program

Aim and Benefits of Female Founder Program

• Female founder A portal where participants will get access to the timeline, sessions, and resources. To go through a fully digital acceleration program curated specifically for female founders.
• Intrapreneurship A portal that allows businesses to subscribe for training and mentorship sessions for a group of their female employees. Mostly related to innovation, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship.
• Community portal A portal that allows community members to interact with each other, write articles, ask for support, or request calls with our community experts.
• Freemium portal Resources, opportunities, and videos free and available for all.

Requirements for Female Founder Program Qualification

The targets are female founders of startups or SMEs based in the continent of Africa who:

• Age: Are aged between 25-40. Globally, younger women (ages 25-44) had the highest entrepreneurial participation rates.
• Degree: Have at least finished 3 years of university. No specific background.
• Activity: Operate in the African continent in any industry.
• Market share: Have made an initial revenue with their product/service that’s already on the market.
• Level of growth: Inadequate cash flows that do not fit the level of growth and forecasted revenues. Require more tools and resources to upgrade human capital capacities to tackle recent market challenges and hence upgrade the entity’s positioning.
• Require Founders: In the case of not being able to manage/ lead the entity or if the management team does not acquire all the skills needed, the leader can make the decision of choosing new individuals to whom part of the work would be outsourced.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit VC4A website.